Senior Business Development Engineer or Advisor
Job Summary
About this opportunity:
The Business Development Engineer plays a key role inidentifying evaluating and advancing highvalue opportunities across a Canadian thermal and conventional heavy oil portfolio with a strong focus on SAGD and long-life upstream assets.
The role combines upstream engineering asset evaluation and commercial analysis to support portfolio optimization and value creation. Key areas of focus include M&A competitive intelligence regulatory changes and commercial initiatives that influence asset value andlong-termcompetitiveness.
Success in this role requires strong engineering judgment solid commercial understanding and credibility with technical teams working across SAGD and heavy oil operations.
Whatyoulldo:
Perform integrated technical and financial evaluations of organic and inorganic opportunities including acquisitions divestitures and commercial alternatives.
Quantify value risk and uncertainty for upstream assets incorporating reservoir performance development concepts operating strategy capital efficiency and regulatory drivers.
Translate complex analysis into cleardecision readyrecommendations for senior leadership.
Support market intelligence and competitor benchmarking initiatives within the WCSB.
Generate and review economic models and evaluation outputs using industrystandard tools to enable consistent datadriven decision making.
Utilize broad technical and commercial understanding and passion for connecting people tofacilitatecross functional alignmentenhance project valueand accelerate opportunity development.
Manage multiple competing priorities independently while delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
Promote ideas articulate business cases and tailor messaging to diverse audiences including technical teams leadershippartnersand regulators.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the followingminimumrequirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada.
8 yearsofexperiencein upstream SAGD development engineering including managing and coordinating project teams.
Bachelors degree in Business CommerceEngineeringor a related field;professional engineering designation (.) or equivalent preferred.
Strong business commercial and financial acumen.
Strategic thinker with theproven ability totransform ideas into actionable work plans for teams.
Advancedproficiencyin Excel PowerPoint Power BI and Microsoft 365 with experience using MosaicValNav ARIESEnersight(or equivalents) for economic evaluation plus familiarity with market intelligence platforms such as Wood Mackenzie RystadEnverusand IHS.
Working knowledge of technical data tools including Spotfire GIS and reservoir model outputs to support commercial and strategic analysis.
We acknowledge the value oftransferrableskills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT April 29 2026.
Cenovus was ranked one of Canadas Best Employers in 2025.Werecommitted to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities.Learn more.
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Who we are:
Ranked as one of Canadas Best Employers in 2025 Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. Were committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovuss downstream operations include upgrading refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.
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The Cenovus experience
Total rewards
Were committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package including:
Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
Health & dental benefits
Substantial mental health coverage
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Employee family assistance
Virtual healthcare coverage
Our development philosophy
We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives including:
Internal course offerings
Education assistance for additional development
Opportunities to work on special projects
Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders
We actively promote internal job movement recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives building connections across teams and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomesfor employees and for the company as a whole.
Our culture
Our purpose: We energize the world to make peoples lives better.
Our values:
Protect what matters
Do it right
Make it better
Do it together
Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program Cenovus Cares connects our people to our purpose inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1000 per event).
Receive donation matching up to $25000 annually.
Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.
Equal opportunity employer
We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach we can solve challenges seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.
To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace individuals are evaluated based on qualifications merit and abilities and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
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The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC